Released:
2016-01-01

Overview:
The soldier Wozzeck (Christian Gerhaher) flits through a world that he is unable to decipher. The doctor torments him with absurd medical experiments; the captain humiliates and ridicules him. And Wozzeck’s lover, Marie (Gun-Brit Barkmin), with whom he has a child, cuckolds him with the drum major. Wozzeck becomes a murderer, stabbing Marie to death. Georg Büchner’s drama fragment, on which Alban Berg based his first opera, is an unflinching case study of social injustice and human suffering. But it is also a grotesque piece that thrives on exaggeration – and in which only a fine line separates the unfathomable from the ridiculous. Accordingly, director Andreas Homoki forgoes all realism.

Director:
Michael Beyer

Runtime:
1h 41min

Genre:
Music

• Cast:
• 
  Christian Gerhaher
  as
  Wozzeck
• 
  Brandon Jovanovich
  as
  Drum Major
• 
  Mauro Peter
  as
  Andres
• 
  Wolfgang Ablinger-Sperrhacke
  as
  Captain
• 
  Lars Woldt
  as
  Doctor